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the regime shot at us, tortured us and no one came to our aid except these guys. and maybe some are my cousins and uncles and brothers. they picked up guns, they came here to defend us and we welcome them. they say this despite the fact that the rebels' presence in their town sometimes brings the ire of the government. it might mean that civilian homes get shelled. that people died. they say we dot care, we're wiing to takth risk because these are the people here to protect us. so the rebels have hearts and minds in these towns. >> reporter: the morale overall though was what? what did you find? >> people were willing to stay on message, especially when talking to western journalists "we support the rebels, we support the cause. any day now we'll take down the regime." while i was inside syria there was this high level attack inside damascus that killed four high-ranking officials in the syrian government. i think that was a real morale boost and a few days after that you saw a lot of units going to aleppo. i was very close to aleppo, syria's largest city in the n
the regime shot at us, tortured us and no one came to our aid except these guys. and maybe some are my cousins and uncles and brothers. they picked up guns, they came here to defend us and we welcome them. they say this despite the fact that the rebels' presence in their town sometimes brings the ire of the government. it might mean that civilian homes get shelled. that people died. they say we dot care, we're wiing to takth risk because these are the people here to protect us. so the rebels...
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richard ravitch joins us. a former lieutenant governor of new york, he co-chaired the task force issuing today's report with former fed chairman paul volcker. also with us is susan urahn, managing director of the pew center on the states. >> dirk ravitch what jumps out is the situation is much worse than thought, much worse than states are willing to admit and worse than anybody seems to have a grasp on what to do. am i overstating these problems? >> no, you're not. and it's a function arisi fro things. one, there are basic expenditures like medicaid and retirement expenditures which are growing at a faster rate in state and local revenues. number two, states for a long long time had been using gimmicky to balance their budget and weren't call to account by that. wall street's been willing to aid and abet that process and out of perfectly valid and wonderful motives, people have made a lot of commitments but we've been unwilling to provide the revenues to match the commitments that we've made as a society. >>
richard ravitch joins us. a former lieutenant governor of new york, he co-chaired the task force issuing today's report with former fed chairman paul volcker. also with us is susan urahn, managing director of the pew center on the states. >> dirk ravitch what jumps out is the situation is much worse than thought, much worse than states are willing to admit and worse than anybody seems to have a grasp on what to do. am i overstating these problems? >> no, you're not. and it's a...
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thanks for joining us. explain libor a little more for us, first of all. how important is it and how is it set. how are banks even in a position to manipulate if. >> first of tall is immensely important. as you mentioned it's the benchmark for interest rates on trillions and trillions of dollars of loans around the world. it is set in fairly controversial manner, actually. it's arranged by a trade group of banks in london. every day around lunchtime in london about 16 banks submit to the british bankers association data that is an estimate of how much it would cost those banks to borrow from each other. so there's not very much oversight over how the banks submit that data. and what we're seeing now, and there have been suspicions about this for several years now but what we are now seeing very concrete evidence of is that the banks deliberately and knowingly submitted false data t benefit themselves. >> so explain how the scheme that barclays has admitted to, how it worked. this is teen 2005 and 2009, right. >> yes. and it's just at the outset it's very i
thanks for joining us. explain libor a little more for us, first of all. how important is it and how is it set. how are banks even in a position to manipulate if. >> first of tall is immensely important. as you mentioned it's the benchmark for interest rates on trillions and trillions of dollars of loans around the world. it is set in fairly controversial manner, actually. it's arranged by a trade group of banks in london. every day around lunchtime in london about 16 banks submit to the...
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denise and joe join us now. and the author thomas jefferson pretty well-known, vice president, minister to france, secretary of state and eventually president. but the other 55, not so much. >> not so much. >> well who were they. if you were to look across the room, who was sitting in that hot summer room in philadelphia? >> the 55, i mean i would say out of the 56 men, the 5 we know are franklin, jefferson and hancock. i think these days other people would say i recognize john adams because of the mini series and sam adams because of a beer. that's just the way it is. the other men, i think if you look at them across their professions, some of them were lawyers, some were doctors. kreiger politicians. a large number made their income from agricultural work, whether that was a large plantation in the south or a small farm. >> these were men who enjoyed a role of prominence, that's how they ended up in the continental congress. some of them started out from humble beginnings. not the majority of them but there ar
denise and joe join us now. and the author thomas jefferson pretty well-known, vice president, minister to france, secretary of state and eventually president. but the other 55, not so much. >> not so much. >> well who were they. if you were to look across the room, who was sitting in that hot summer room in philadelphia? >> the 55, i mean i would say out of the 56 men, the 5 we know are franklin, jefferson and hancock. i think these days other people would say i recognize...
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they used to use all the information they would get from to do or ins and supporters who sent direct mail. well, now you can know your zip code, you know what people buy, you know what people like, you know where they live, you know their stub division and it's much easier to target. >> i'm sure the campaigns would object to the fact that robots are doing this because somebody has to make this decision and the fact that they know in the age of google about your purchasing habits, male, female, demographic information. and mitt romney's, they don't have as many examples on mitt romney's fund-raising but while team obama is using sarah jessica parker and george clooney dinners as fund-raising tools, romney has just sent out an e-mail, or his campaign has, inviting people win a day on the road with mitt if you contribute a few dollars. >> and they have done that with president obama. you could have dinner with both the president and michelle. that was something done a few months ago. that was copy cat exercise. >> suarez: and it doesn't really cost much more. unlike campaigns that reall
they used to use all the information they would get from to do or ins and supporters who sent direct mail. well, now you can know your zip code, you know what people buy, you know what people like, you know where they live, you know their stub division and it's much easier to target. >> i'm sure the campaigns would object to the fact that robots are doing this because somebody has to make this decision and the fact that they know in the age of google about your purchasing habits, male,...
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we use to use our main supply route. although the other supply route was being used very effectively as well as the line of communication. the other supply route for your viewing audience is the one to the north as opposed through the khyber pass. the stumbling blocks were really surrounded accountability for those, the pakistanis believed, who were involved in the killing of their troops as well as a public apology. that was much of it. also the pakistanis were charging some increased outrageous prices, you know, per truck and per container to make its way along that supply line. look, it's a step in the right direction. it's better for it. >> brown: general keane by reports there was resistent to issuing that apology. the state department seemed to want to. at least through reports we got, the pentagon and others did not. >> that's true. it's sort of a soft apology anyway. look at. i got briefed on this operation in january when i was doing an assessment for general madison, general allen, general allen the commander i
we use to use our main supply route. although the other supply route was being used very effectively as well as the line of communication. the other supply route for your viewing audience is the one to the north as opposed through the khyber pass. the stumbling blocks were really surrounded accountability for those, the pakistanis believed, who were involved in the killing of their troops as well as a public apology. that was much of it. also the pakistanis were charging some increased...
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bnsf, the engine that connects us. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> ifill: five days after a storm that cut a path from the midwest to the mid-atlantic, many americans were still in the dark, sweating out this fourth of july. the death toll from those storms has now reached 26. in the west, scores of wildfires continued to rage, but that didn't stop the cookouts and the parades. temperatures approaching 100 degrees didn't stop hundreds from lining the streets in washington today for a neighborhood fourth of july parade and picnic. but even as americans from coast to coast celebrated the nation's independence, many longed for a different kind of dependence on electricity. >> everybody on the block has power but our house and the house across the street. neighbor next door lets me plug into her house so i can run the freezer and
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we will use the infrastructure trust where it makes sense for us. we will do we need to do on the water on our own. it is a tool, and where the tool works you will apply it, and where it does not work, you will not apply it. you have to have the tool available. the notion to you are not going to make something available to yourself when economic needs and the vitality of the city require it -- and i do not think we could have the type of job growth and a drop in unemployment -- it is not like i'm sitting next to google. we have a diverse economy. part of it is the job growth we got through the infrastructure and investment piece of it. >> the connections to manufacturing especially. it starts with low interest rates. can the cit take advantage of that? should mayor's look at that because you have that opportunity right now? >> let me say one clarifying thing. the trust is not for basic maintenance and upkeep. it is for transformative investments you can not do any other way. you have to have good people running the system. rosie is here also. there
we will use the infrastructure trust where it makes sense for us. we will do we need to do on the water on our own. it is a tool, and where the tool works you will apply it, and where it does not work, you will not apply it. you have to have the tool available. the notion to you are not going to make something available to yourself when economic needs and the vitality of the city require it -- and i do not think we could have the type of job growth and a drop in unemployment -- it is not like...
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i think that these tragedies should -- shame on us for not using these as opportunities to lookate at ways that we can make our streets and our movie theaters and everywhere that people gather safer. >> ifill: congresswoman schakowsky, dave kopei and mike dimock, thank you all very much. you can watch today's full court appearance by james holmes and the comments made after that by the district attorney on our web site. >> woodruff: still to come on the newshour, the penalties for penn state; the campaign challenges for president obama in florida; the battles in syria; and a deadly day in iraq. but first, the other news of the day. here's hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: president obama and republican mitt romney returned to campaigning in earnest today for the first time since the colorado shootings. romney spoke to a small business roundtable in irvine, california, and he charged again that the president doesn't understand business. >> i happen to think that for people who have their spent whole livelihood working in government that they sometimes don't appreciate just how hard it
i think that these tragedies should -- shame on us for not using these as opportunities to lookate at ways that we can make our streets and our movie theaters and everywhere that people gather safer. >> ifill: congresswoman schakowsky, dave kopei and mike dimock, thank you all very much. you can watch today's full court appearance by james holmes and the comments made after that by the district attorney on our web site. >> woodruff: still to come on the newshour, the penalties for...
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tell us about that. >> right. michael phelps did break... he's now the winningest olympian in history, 19 medals. that is extraordinary. but he kind of backed into it. he won... he set the record with the u.s. relay. that was... they won the gold medal. but before that, in his signature event, gwen, the 200 butterfly -- this is the event that he made the olympics in 2000 as a 15-year-old -- he has never been beaten in this event. he was caught at the end of a finish reminiscent of what happened four years ago for those who remember in the butterfly where michael phelps caught his competitor at the very end. this time someone caught michael phelps. i never thought i would say these wors, that michael phelps faded in the stretch in his signature event the 200 butterfly but he did. that has to be a great disappointment for him tonight. >> ifill: we should point out that neither of the events we just described have been broadcast here yet on east coast time in the united states. shortly around 6:00 p.m. so what has been the reaction to that? we'
tell us about that. >> right. michael phelps did break... he's now the winningest olympian in history, 19 medals. that is extraordinary. but he kind of backed into it. he won... he set the record with the u.s. relay. that was... they won the gold medal. but before that, in his signature event, gwen, the 200 butterfly -- this is the event that he made the olympics in 2000 as a 15-year-old -- he has never been beaten in this event. he was caught at the end of a finish reminiscent of what...
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he joins us now from the "washington post" newsroom. spencer, welcome. so this investigation of forensics mainly was triggered by flawed hair analysis, is that right? >> that's right, judy. the concern has been building for decades really, that hair and other forensic disciplines have not had the scientific research to i guess validate or underpin their approach n. the case of hair, skeptics have raised the point that it might be subjective, given hair examiner, two different examiners might describe the same hair in different ways, the same examiner might describe it differently at different times. there was no agreement on how many character it had to be alike fothe be a match declared. there was no population studies or statistics to answer the question of how often the hairs of two different people might appear to be the same or how often a given number of characteristics might match. to resolve these questions the f.b.i. has long said that a hair machl only shows that you can exclude two people, my hair might not look like your hair, but it can only
he joins us now from the "washington post" newsroom. spencer, welcome. so this investigation of forensics mainly was triggered by flawed hair analysis, is that right? >> that's right, judy. the concern has been building for decades really, that hair and other forensic disciplines have not had the scientific research to i guess validate or underpin their approach n. the case of hair, skeptics have raised the point that it might be subjective, given hair examiner, two different...
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what can you update us on? >> well, the opinions we've talked to are still divided on what this means. there are some who think that this was moving wednesday from sites that were threatened by the rebels to more secure areas. there were otherswho worry that.... >> brown: you mean away from potential insurgents? >> away from the rebels in the insurgent line to safeguard them for the regime. but there are others who think that the movement was a precursor to potentially using them as a part of the ethnic cleansing campaign or as part of... on the battlefield against the rebels. >> and certainly officials have spoken up two days a row, leon panetta at the pentagon yesterday and again today so some level of concern. >> right. and a clear warning that this real l invite an internationa response. d that's why se oficis think at this is... it will not be president assad who makes the order to use this but only after he falls from power, remnants of his regime might, as last-ditch effort, start to use these weapons. >
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. >> suarez: a follow-up to our recent story about smart meters used to monitor energy use. spencer michels reports on california activists who want to ban them. >> pacific gas & electric one of the nation's largest utilities has had to fight a coalition of people who suspect, among other things, that smart meters may be bad for your health. >> brown: that'sll aad on tonight's newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the enne that connects us. >> and by the bill and melinda gates foundation. dedicated to the idea that all people deserve the chance to live a healthy, productive life. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs stion from viewers like you. thank you. >> brown: once again today, americans absorbed the news of a mass shooting-- a dozen dead, at least 59 hurt or wounded. it happened in the city of aurora, just east of denver, whe
. >> suarez: a follow-up to our recent story about smart meters used to monitor energy use. spencer michels reports on california activists who want to ban them. >> pacific gas & electric one of the nation's largest utilities has had to fight a coalition of people who suspect, among other things, that smart meters may be bad for your health. >> brown: that'sll aad on tonight's newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪...
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he joins us from the penn state campus. and we thank you both for being with us. mark dent, to you first. how verne the authors of this report that the leaders of the university knew what sandusky was up to as long ago as 1998? >> well, that was the first thing that they really discussed in the report was that these four men, paterno, curley, schultz and spanier had knowledge of it as far back as '98, they have e-mails showing knowledge of it. there's an e-mail reference where curley mentions that he wants joe paterno... joe paterno is anxious to hear about more news regarding this incident. so there's basically no doubt. there's documentation these four men had knowledge of that event even though three of them... paterno, curley, and schultz-- denied knowing about the 1998 incident when they talked to the grand jury last year. >> woodruff: that was going to be my question because that would mean they did not tell the truth to the grand jury. >> absolutely. and obviously curley and schultz are facing charges of perjury already and a failure to report. joe paterno
he joins us from the penn state campus. and we thank you both for being with us. mark dent, to you first. how verne the authors of this report that the leaders of the university knew what sandusky was up to as long ago as 1998? >> well, that was the first thing that they really discussed in the report was that these four men, paterno, curley, schultz and spanier had knowledge of it as far back as '98, they have e-mails showing knowledge of it. there's an e-mail reference where curley...
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and they listened to us. and i'm here ten years later, and i've just been at a breakfast meeting, as you were and listened to the most wonderful speeches. we've come so far. it's become a real bipartisan cause, which i'm very happy to see. and in the case of america, it's... certainly without america, we'd be facing catastrophe. >> ifill: so many nations in africa resisted. >> they resisted for a long time and now south africa has woken up and is doing great things. if south africa becomes a template to where aids is in the subsaharan continent all the other countries will follow suit and michel sidibe spoke at the breakfast meeting this morning saying there was so much hope for africa now that south africa has its house in order. and president'm beck kay said if you have aids you get a shot and it goes away. or it's causeded by poverty. we faced those issues. now the new regime, they really paid attention and when south africa speaks, the whole of africa will listen. >> ifill: you have harsh words in your bo
and they listened to us. and i'm here ten years later, and i've just been at a breakfast meeting, as you were and listened to the most wonderful speeches. we've come so far. it's become a real bipartisan cause, which i'm very happy to see. and in the case of america, it's... certainly without america, we'd be facing catastrophe. >> ifill: so many nations in africa resisted. >> they resisted for a long time and now south africa has woken up and is doing great things. if south africa...